Thanks to an order issued today by U. S. District Court Judge Fernando Gaitan, the Westboro Baptist Church will be able to continue its desecration of military funerals.The order struck down Missouri laws which restricted the times such protests could be held and requiring protesters to maintain a distance of at least 300 feet from the funerals.
Having spent most of my adult life writing words that are protected by the First Amendment, I have always been a staunch supporter of free speech, even when that speech is vile and disgusting- but does that mean that we have no obligation to protect the sanctity of the grieving process for families whose loved ones have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the First Amendment that these jackals then flaunt in their faces?
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Wow.
Having spent most of your entire life writing self-serving lies which are in accordance with the chattering class of parasites hiding behind the First Amendment to the Bill of Goods, you were finally run off by the publishers and readers who got tired of your lies. The First Amendment simply meant that sooner or later you ran into a similar jerk on the right who took you to court and finished you off.
These funerals are used as political events. Your kind wants to use the myth that idiot thugs in a declining economy are somehow 'heroes' for joining the looting expedition of an imperial state in order to go half-way around the world and murder women and children and when they are justly killed by the patriots of foreign lands, your kind wants to call them 'heroes' when in actuality they are worse than the SS. So then when certain real patriots, who wonder why the ruling class's imperial wars for personal profit should be glossed over, and decide to draw attention to the real costs of the war upon their discarded tools, you dishonest fools immediately claim that you get to draw where the line dividing what is permissible to write or say by claiming -- absent facts, intelligence, or even honesty -- to a higher morality. Your 'higher morality,' Turner, is akin to that of a tapeworm.
I have a simple solution for your kind Turner: You say whatever you please. Then when anyone gets annoyed at what you write, then they brand a retraction on your hide and skin you out, putting the stretched pelt on the lie-paper door for all to see.
That way the rest of us can figure out who is in power and what is safe to say and think and nobody needs to get the lawyers and judges involved.
You and your kind never believed in free speech for anyone except your fellow liars. But things are falling apart, and you no longer have a monopoly of who gets to say what, thanks to the Internet.
These foreign wars are lost. They were lost the day they were started as a looting expedition. Hundreds of millions of brown people can't be occupied forever by a hundred thousand Western soldiers hunkered down in fire-bases. There isn't money to fix American roads and infrastructure, yet these fools think that they are going to make Iraq or Afghanistan into a Western democracy with modern infrastructure. Millions of teachers here are going to be laid off, but you think you are going to close down Islamic seminaries over there?
The soldiers who were killed in foreign wars are simply poor people who couldn't find any jobs over here, so they found their only employer, took their chances, and lost. They are simply discarded tools, and certainly not heroes. And anyone who glorifies the unnecessary wars in which these dupes were killed, is a traitor and parasite -- one who hates rule of law because sometimes even these corrupt courts gives a reverse to a thief who claims a higher morality.
Martins back.
It does sound as though Martin is back. The reality is, in the true letter of the law, stopping this expression of speech is unconstitutional. Those of us who chearish the constitution must be ready to accept the negatives of its existence in every day life. Free speech is really free, not just the free we like. I think if groups wish to show up to block the pressence of this group, that too is acceptable. I don't mean violant action, just a pressence that obscures the protestors.
The minute we start fitting the 1st amendment to what we want it to mean today, is the minute we open the door for others to redefine it to mean what fits their agenda. Free speech is free speech.
5:17 -- That verges on brilliant.
5:53, you lowered 5:17's comments to brilliant when they are way better than that!
8:25
Respectfully, I served to defend and protect our Constitution and free speech.
I, too, hate these people who protest at the funerals but we must protect free speech. This does not preclude me from walking up to one of the protestors and knocking their teeth out to determine if they are willing to fight for their free speech opportunity.
Of course, I'll wind up in jail but it will not be the first time.
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